Dear Qt Devs, I'm currently preparing installers for a cross platform application (Win, Linux, OSX). I have investigated, which dependencies apart from the Qt5 libraries themselves are need to be shipped as well. But I'm a bit confused about the role of ICU.
>From wiki pages (https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_5.6_Tools_and_Versions and https://wiki.qt.io/Building_Qt_5_from_Git), I understood that, ICU is only required for QtWebkit. I also learned that the ICU version shipped in Qt 5.6.0 is 56.1. However, I found the following facts a bit inconsistent: * Windows is actually shipping 54.1 instead of 56.1. Was the upgrade missed or is this on purpose? To me it is a minor issue, but I'm curious. * Official Windows QtCore binary is not linked against ICU libraries (at least from what I can see in dependency walker). Does it link at runtime? * Official Linux QtCore binary in contrast is linked against ICU (verified with ldd). * Official OS X QtCore binary again is not linked against ICU. Now my question: Is ICU mandatory for all platforms or maybe only for Linux? Ideally I could just skip shipping it in my installer, since I'm using a custom Qt5 build on my Debian server (I did not yet manage to use the official installer on a headless server with an install script). But I want to be sure, what features I'm loosing before any decision. ? *guess mode on* I guess, ICU was shipped previously because of QtWebkit. Since QtWebkit is no longer shipped in official installers, could ICU also be removed? I know what ICU is, but why is it shipped without linking against it? *guess mode off* Cheers Roland _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
